When Your Teenager is Injured
Preparing for Work and Adulthood
By: Marilyn Lash, Paul Kahn & Gary Wolcott ~ 1997
This manual focuses on the required transition planning for adolescents receiving special education. Discusses how to include this in the IEP by age 14. Prepares for adulthood by describing how to look for a job, prepare for interviews, discuss the disability, and negotiate accommodations.
Common biases of employers are frankly discussed, along with strategies for pre-venting discrimination because of a disability. The adult service system is described.
Item: WYTI 56 pages, 6x9 softcover ISBN 1-931117-13-6